Bertie Gregory (Animals Up Close, Secrets of the Penguins), the Emmy-winning British wildlife filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer, has taken nature TV fans through some of the most remote places on earth, from tracking emperor penguins in Antartica to chronicling pumas in Patagonia and following marine iguanas in the Galápagos. And now the nature expert is gearing up for one of his most audacious missions yet: jumping into the wild waters of South Africa—a hotspot for great white sharks—cage-free.
Spotlighting one of the ocean’s most famous and feared predators, Sharks Up Close with Bertie Gregory premieres tonight, July 5 at 8pm Eastern Time on National Geographic. (It will also be available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu beginning tomorrow, July 6.) "Diving in the shallows without a cage, Bertie will attempt to film these huge sharks hunting seals," reads the official series description, per Nat Geo. "By entering their domain, he discovers the challenges they face on our rapidly changing planet."
